Partner - Media Hybrid Remote , London, England

Media – Managing Partner (AV/PRINT&AUDIO)

About the role:

Media is the beating heart of the agency. The place where creativity meets commerciality, and where specialists bring unrivalled work to life.

The Managing Partner is a senior media leader both in their respective department and the wider Media team. They’ll oversee responsibility for the delivery of excellence in market media planning and buying, drive product growth within their suite of clients, and lead the future vision of Media to continue to deliver outcome-based unrivalled work for our clients.

For this position, you are the expert in your field.

In this role, you will:

• Be leaned upon to represent the agency as an ambassador for AV/Print.
• Have a passion for AV/Print and be visual in the trade press.
• Require senior stakeholder relationships with media owners and can form trusted and respected bonds with our senior clients.
• Set standards for the work the department produces, ensuring a consistent high level of delivery across the floor.
• Thrive in driving unrivalled work, both within your specialism and in collaboration with wavemaker and our partners.

Some of the best things about this role…

• Being a respected figure within the department, for our clients, our people and the industry.
• Developing the future of media planning in a rapidly evolving era.
• Driving commercial outcomes, for our clients and our business.

Core skills:

• Campaign Management
  • Implements campaign management strategies and frameworks to ensure that the team delivers high-quality and accurate planning and delivery.
  • Is accountable for the management of campaign activity across the team ensuring that it is in line with the media strategy and with commercial requirements.
  • Acts as a thought leader and driver around new market opportunities and offerings in the industry and to drive creativity and innovation in planning.
• Media Investment Planning
  • Applies expert understanding to forecast future investment trends.
  • Drives high impact media initiatives that position WM competitively in the market.
  • Actively exploits and optimizes opportunities to achieve sustained improvements in client\’s performance in print/audio markets, whilst considering agency\’s commercial pressures.
  • Leads specialist media channels in pitches.
• Demonstrating Value
  • Utilizes market and client knowledge to understand unstated expectations and understand the planning requirement against needs.
  • Develops the medium to long term strategy to meet the needs of the client to ensure that the relationship is viewed by the client as indispensable and irreplaceable.
  • Ensures that the product, innovation, service and solutions are utilized that differentiate Xaxis and Finecast from its competitors and demonstrate the value proposition of a continued partnership.
• Multitasking
  • Manages multiple overlapping timelines and competing demands, weighing the needs of different stakeholders across the business to determine priorities for parallel projects and sets priorities according to business needs.
• Operational Excellence
  • Accountable for ensuring best operational practice and consistency across the team. Ensure that operational changes or requirements are implemented.
  • Acts as a thought leader for continual improvements to increase time efficiency for the team and net working capital into the business.

About Wavemaker UK:

Wavemaker is a global media agency. We believe there is a better way to grow. By leveraging our deep understanding of audiences, Provocative Planning process and the world’s largest database of purchase journeys, we deliver exceptional growth for clients including Audible, Nationwide, Danone, Asahi and Morrisons.

Unlike traditional linear media planning, our modular approach combines machine learning and human intelligence to unlock, maximize and transform growth for the world’s leading brands and businesses.

A part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company, our 7,650 people across 88 markets are defined by their attitude of positive provocation, which means:

• deep knowledge of our clients’ business
• the confidence to challenge what’s gone before
• the support to go further than we thought possible.

Discover more at wavemakerglobal.com/uk or follow us @WavemakerUK.

We are an equal opportunities employer and support the life choices of our employees. All GroupM agencies are equal opportunities employers and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender identity, disability, culture/religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

We support the life choices of our employees, offering generous family and carer friendly policies.

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